#but God still refers to Godself in the plural so with what we know at the moment it seems like it's every bit as valid as God referring to

[zenithofdisaster]

I know this is specifically a post about non-traumagenic systems so I don't want to derail because God as a non-traumagenic system is a beautiful and completely cannon compliant theory in Christianity!

But as a system who originated primarily from the trauma of crushing loneliness (and a couple other factors, but those aren't relevant to this lol), I think an argument for God as traumagenic could also be made. After all, if They existed before anything else did, let alone other sentient creatures, I could see them forming from a similar all-encompassing and traumatic loneliness. Are we reading a lot of ourselves into the narrative? Maybe. But there's already theories in Christianity that humans being formed 'in the image of God' doesn't actually mean God is human shaped. So it stands to reason that, since one of humanity's defining traits seems to be our need to be in community, and we find it traumatizing to be alone (be that through ostracization from our communities or other kinds of being alone like feeling that no one understands us), that God could also have been traumatized in their loneliness as the first thing in the universe to ever exist.

Again, not trying to derail the theory of God as a non-traumagenic system because in the end, well, short of Them coming down and telling us Their origins Themselves, we will never know. But the argument that plural people are possessed is one I know our family would make regardless of if our origin was traumatic or not, and I know other people make it too. So! The argument for God being a system protects all of us, no matter our origin.

I was thinking about making a plurality of God post, but the apologists beat me to it. 🤪

I'm not going to link directly to the article to avoid giving their site attention. Matt Slick and his organization CARM are notorious for being homophobic and transphobic.

The less traffic they're given, the better.

Still, I think this is a good weapon in our arsenal as plural systems. It seems inevitable that as plurality becomes more common and accepted and as tulpamancy continues to catch on, we're inevitably going to be faced with opposition from conservative bigots.

I think it was last year when I saw a thread in a Catholic subreddit with people there suggesting tulpa were demons.

I focus a lot on scientific evidence for non-traumagenic plurality. This is my weapon of choice when dealing with secular sceptics. But when the time comes and the religious right come after us, I believe the better tactic will be to remind them that their God Himself is a non-traumagenic plural.

Instead of arguing science against evangelicals, we argue instead that of course non-traumagenic plurality exists and is naturally occurring because God Himself is plural and humanity was created in the likeness of God and the Holy Trinity.

(Also, anti-endo Christians are inherently anti-God.)